The 1929 United Kingdom general election in Northern Ireland was held on 30 May as part of the wider

general election A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ( ...

. There were ten constituencies, seven single-seat constituencies with elected by

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and three two-seat constituencies with MPs elected by bloc voting.

Results

The Nationalist Party ran in this election, having not contested the previous election in 1924. It regained the two seats in Fermanagh and Tyrone it had held from 1922 to 1924. In the election as a whole, the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

, which included the Ulster Unionists, led by

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, lost its majority and the Labour Party formed a minority government with Ramsay MacDonald as

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MPs elected

By-election

Footnotes

References

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1929 elections in Northern Ireland May 1929 events